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Essentials Framework Devices by Type

The device types built into Essentials v3 are listed below with their config type names. Other devices are supported through plugins; a plugin must be built for Essentials v3 to load. To list the types a running program can build, including types from loaded plugins, use the console command gettypes.

Disc Player

  • Any IR disc player that implements standard RAD commands (genericIrController)

Displays

  • Any IR display that implements standard RAD commands (basicirdisplay)
  • Screen lift controller (screenliftcontroller)
  • Panasonic Projectors (via plugin)
  • LG Commercial series (via plugin)
  • Generic CEC control via HDMI (via plugin)
  • Crestron Certified Driver Display (via plugin)

Lighting/Shading

  • Relay-controlled shades (relaycontrolledshade, shadecontroller)

Set Top Boxes

  • Any IR set top box that implements standard RAD commands (settopbox)

Sources

  • In-room PC (inroompc)
  • Laptop (laptop)
  • Generic source (genericsource)

Streaming Players

  • AppleTV (IR) (appletv)
  • Roku (IR) (roku)

Video Codecs

  • Generic soft codec (genericsoftcodec)
  • BlueJeans PC (bluejeanspc)

DSPs / Audio Codecs

  • Generic audio output with volume (genericaudiooutwithvolume)
  • BiAmp Tesira (via plugin)

Crestron Devices

  • Relay outputs, digital inputs and Versiports (relayoutput, digitalinput, versiportinput, versiportanaloginput, versiportoutput)
  • COM ports and generic TCP/IP communication (genericComm)
  • IR ports (genericIrController)
  • TSW/TS touchpanels, XPanel, DGE-1000 and the Crestron App, through Mobile Control (mctsw550, mctsw750, mctsw1050, mctsw560, mctsw760, mctsw1060, mctsw570, mctsw770, mcts770, mctsw1070, mcts1070, mctsw1080, mcts1080, mcxpanel, mcdge1000, mccrestronapp), and a Crestron UC-ENGINE-FLEX-TEAMS (Microsoft Teams Rooms) as the panel (mcucengineflexteams)
  • Internal card cage (internalcardcage) (via plugin)
  • Fusion Room and Assets (fusionRoom)
  • Mobile Control, which serves the web UI and connects UI clients to the system (mobilecontrol)
  • EISC bridges to SIMPL Windows programs (eiscapiadvanced and related types)

Mock Devices

  • Mock display, video codec, audio codec, audio device, lighting device and routing midpoint (mockdisplay, mockvc, mockac, mockaudiodevice, mockLightingDevice, mockroutingmidpoint)
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